W(riters) G(roup) Houston

03/20/2020

Thunderstorms coming
Time to put our heart in words
Writing, our safe place

04/22/2019

Hey, writers! Let's get some new groups growing ...

07/16/2016

Anyone else want to see Houston Writers Group resurrect? How about?

02/02/2012

http://believermag.com/issues/201202/?read=interview_alexie_case

A couple of winters ago, I had the opportunity to travel to Spokane, Washington, to interview the great Sherman Alexie just before the release of his latest book of poetry, Face. I was worn-out and deep into some dark winter months of making a record, and I couldn't wait to cross the continent to re...

01/18/2012

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/08/144804084/a-self-published-authors-2-million-cinderella-story

No one wanted to publish Amanda Hocking's novels, so she put them online. For a long while, she'd sell one or two books a day. Then, in June, it exploded. She's now part of an elite literary club: authors who have sold 1 million books on the Amazon Kindle.

10/31/2011

NaNoWriMo starts in t-minus 0:09:19:24!!

10/21/2011

Good morning fanboys and fangirls! What are you working on right now? Good anything good brewing in your word processor?

10/17/2011

What we're doing at next week's WG meeting:
http://www.inprinthouston.org/jeffrey-eugenides

JEFFREY EUGENIDES, who is “blessed with the storyteller's most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary” (The New York Times Book Review), received rave reviews in 1993 for his first novel, The Virgin Suicides, which became an international bestseller and was made in...

10/17/2011

Well I, for one, am very excited about this:
http://levgrossman.com/2011/10/so-that-happened-the-post-about-the-tv-deal/

Lev Grossman - author, novelist, book critic

10/11/2011

Awesome short stories on this week's TAL, including one by Dave Eggers.